207 Nigerian Islamic sect Boko Haram militants were killed by Chadian army in Nigeria on Tuesday, according to a statement of Chadian army released Tuesday night on state radio.
Boko Haram has released 158 Women and children abducted from a village in northeastern Nigeria's Yobe State, an official said on Friday.
More terrorists have been killed in a concerted air campaign on Thursday by the Nigerian air force to clear terrorists from all their enclaves, an official said.
Thousands of residents of Nigerien towns of Bosso and Diffa have fled from their homes after five days of deadly attacks carried out by the Boko Haram islamist sect, official sources said Tuesday.
Over 500 Boko Haram fighters have been killed by the Nigerien Defense Forces supported by the Chadian troops between last Friday and Tuesday, eyewitnesses have said.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Tuesday pledged support for the war Nigeria was waging to defeat the Boko Haram insurgents.
The UN Security Council on Thursday condemned "in the strongest terms" the continued escalation of Boko Haram terrorist attacks, including the one against the Chadian army contingent sent to fight the group alongside border between Cameroon and Nigeria.
At least 200 militants of Nigerian Islamic sect Boko Haram were killed Wednesday in a fighting with a joint army of Cameroon and Chad in Cameroon's Far-North Region, military sources told Xinhua over phone.
Suspected Boko Haram fighters on Monday went on rampage in Nigeria's northeastern state of Adamawa, killing residents and burning down buildings, local security sources and witnesses said.
Boko Haram is a global threat that must be tackled globally, but with Africa in lead, Nkosazan Dlamini-Zuma, Chairperson of the African Union (AU) Commission, has said.
Three people were killed, around 50 children abducted and 80 houses burned in an attack by suspected Nigerian Islamic sect Boko Haram militants on Sunday in Tourou, north of Cameroon, an army source told Xinhua over phone.
Nigerian troops operating in restive northeast state of Borno killed 78 Boko Haram terrorists in their ill-fated attempt to capture a military base in Biu town, a competent security source told Xinhua on Thursday.
Nigerian president Goodluck Jonathan on Thursday paid a "surprise" visit to the restive Borno State in northeastern region of the country, where the insurgency of Boko Haram has recently increased.
Nigerian military was working hard to free towns captured by the Boko Haram insurgents in restive northeast state of Borno, a government official said on Thursday.
Dozens of soldiers were killed in an attack suspected to be a perpetration of Boko Haram in northeastern Nigeria's state of Borno, local media reported on Sunday, citing top ranking security sources.
Cameroon's army killed 116 Boko Haram fighters on Wednesday when the insurgents attacked an army base in the far north region of Amchide, the country's defense ministry said Thursday.
Troops in Nigeria have arrested suspected Boko Haram cameramen who are experts in photo, video recording and filming of their attacks on communities and atrocities against innocent citizens, the country's defense authority said Monday.
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